Most students aged 11 to 14 can stand up and speak. Very few can stand up, control how they sound and look, construct a three-point argument, adapt it for their audience, deploy a rhetorical technique, and then defend it when someone pushes back. Speaking Foundations: Lower Secondary is the complete course that takes students from the first to the second. All 16 lessons. Four levels. One coherent arc. The course is built on a single principle: every skill taught is the foundation for the next on
Sixteen lessons. Four levels. One complete course that takes students from standing up and saying their name to disagreeing with someone's idea kindly, clearly, and under pressure. Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition) is a full public speaking course for Grades 3 - 6 with no prior experience required. Every lesson assumes a beginner. Every skill is taught before it's expected. And every lesson is self-contained, so whether you're teaching the full sequence or picking the lessons your class nee
3rd - 6th
Other (ELA), Social Emotional Learning, Speaking & Listening
Complete Lesson Plans + Student Materials | Ages 9–11 | Grades 4–6 | 10 x 45 Minutes | No Drama Experience RequiredMost drama resources give you activities. This series gives you a framework for understanding what drama is. Ten lessons. Ten conventions. A deliberately sequenced arc that begins with the most familiar forms, narration and chorus, and builds toward the most demanding and most ancient: masks. By the end, students can name ten conventions, use them deliberately in performance and dev
Most drama resources give you activities. This series gives you a toolkit. Ten lessons. Ten techniques. A deliberately sequenced arc that moves from the most visual and spatial techniques to the most interior and complex. By the end, students are creating performances where levels, proxemics, pace, pause, physicality, vocal variation, direct address, thought tracking, hot seating, and freeze frame are working together as an integrated craft rather than a collection of separate tricks. Every less
Most drama resources give you activities. This series gives you a curriculum. Ten lessons. Ten drama features. A deliberately sequenced arc that starts with the most physical and immediate elements and builds toward the most complex. By the end, students are creating original performances where voice, movement, space, symbol, contrast, mood, tension, focus, and time are all working together in service of character. They can name what they are doing and explain why it works. Every lesson follows
5 complete lessons | Teacher guides and student books | Approximately 300 minutes of instruction plus independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14Before any student sets foot on stage, they need to be able to read what they are about to perform. Not scan it. Not skim the dialogue and skip the directions. Read it: the whole page, all three components, with the understanding that every part of a script carries information that shapes how the story gets told. Unit One builds that capacity a
6 complete lessons | Teacher guides | Approximately 180 minutes of instruction plus extensions | No prep required | No drama experience neededBefore students can use their voices in drama, or play a character, or tell a story with their bodies, they need a physical foundation. They need to know how to stop on a signal and mean it. How to take up space and shrink into it. How to move like something other than themselves. How to hold still while someone looks at them. How to follow another person'
Total Run time: approximately 90–120 minutesOne of the oldest stories ever told, brought to life for your classroom or stage. This complete dramatic adaptation of Homer's Odyssey follows the full arc of the epic: from Athena pressing Zeus to let Odysseus come home, through the wanderings, the monsters, the temptations, and the long wait on Ithaca, to one of the most emotionally powerful homecomings in all of literature. Witty, moving, genuinely theatrical, and built for flexible classroom use, t
Your students have something to say. This bundle gives them the confidence to say it. Finding Your Voice is the complete Level 1 bundle from Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition). Four carefully sequenced lessons that take students from "I can't do this" to delivering their first solo talk. Every exercise assumes a complete beginner. The goal is never performance. It's participation, confidence, and the foundations of a skill that lasts a lifetime. What's IncludedLesson 1.1 — It's Okay to Be Ne
3rd - 6th
Social Emotional Learning, Speaking & Listening, Writing-Essays
Speaking is only half of communication. Level 4 of Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition) is the most transferable unit in the entire course. Students who can already speak with structure and persuasion now learn to listen properly, summarise fairly, ask questions that take a conversation forward, and disagree with an idea without making it personal. These are not just speaking skills. They are life skills. What's IncludedAll four complete lessons with teacher's guides, facilitation notes, and t
3rd - 6th
Other (ELA), Social Emotional Learning, Speaking & Listening
Children persuade the people around them every day, and often don't know they're doing it. This level names what they already know, gives them the tools to do it honestly, and builds to a complete three-minute persuasive talk. Level 3 of Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition) is a complete four-lesson unit on persuasion. Students move from understanding what persuasion actually is, through the techniques that make arguments stick, to a fully assessed talk on something they genuinely believe. Wha
3rd - 6th
Other (ELA), Social Emotional Learning, Speaking & Listening
Your students have learned to stand up and speak. Now let's give them the tools to structure something worth saying well. Building Ideas is the complete Level 2 bundle from Speaking Foundations (Primary Edition). Here are four carefully sequenced lessons that take students from rambling to structured, reasoned, and confident. They'll learn to organise their ideas, back them up, open with impact, and close with intention. What's Included Lesson 2.1: Beginning, Middle, End: The three-part structu
3rd - 6th
Other (ELA), Social Emotional Learning, Speaking & Listening
Bring one of the world's greatest stories to your classroom with this complete, ready-to-use resource! The Monkey King and the Jade Emperor tells the irresistible story of Sun Wukong: a monkey so powerful, so clever, and so utterly impossible to manage that he takes on all of Heaven and nearly wins. Bursting with physical comedy, escalating chaos, and a surprisingly moving ending, this play will captivate your class from the first scene to the last. Everything is included in one PDF:🎭 Full Play
Bring one of Hinduism's most beloved stories to your classroom with this complete, ready-to-use resource. Holika and Prahlad tells the ancient story behind the festival of Holi, where a young prince whose faith is unshakeable, a demon king who loves his son but cannot stop his own cruelty, and a fire that burns away everything except what is true. Thought-provoking, theatrically rich, and handled with genuine cultural care, this play works beautifully both as drama and as a window into a living
Thor's Stolen Hammer: Short Play Script and Teacher's Companion GuideBring Norse mythology to life in your classroom with this ready-to-use play script and comprehensive teacher's companion! Based on one of the most beloved comic poems in Old Norse literature. Thor's Stolen Hammer tells the hilarious story of what happens when a frost giant steals Thor's hammer and demands the goddess Freyja as ransom. Featuring larger-than-life characters, slapstick comedy, and a clever plan that involves Thor
One of the oldest stories in Western literature gets a powerful, thoughtful retelling in this complete classroom resource. The Abduction of Persephone follows a young goddess from a golden afternoon in her meadow, through the darkness of the underworld, to a final act of radical self-determination that will change the world forever. With a large and varied cast, rich ensemble roles, and a script that takes its characters seriously, this is a play that will spark genuine conversation long after t
Teacher guide and student book | 45-minute lesson plus 15-minute independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14 | No drama background requiredThe notes session closes the loop between rehearsal and performance. It also teaches one of the most valuable skills in the programme: how to give and receive specific, actionable feedback professionally. Students who learn this skill will carry it into every creative and collaborative context they encounter, long after the production has finished. A
Teacher guide and student book | 45-minute lesson plus 15-minute independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14 | No drama background requiredStage presence is often described as an innate quality that some performers have and others do not. This is not true, and the lesson says so directly. Stage presence is the visible result of committed attention, genuine engagement with the world of the play, and the confidence to simply be present without doing anything to earn attention. Every stude
Teacher guide and student book | 45-minute lesson plus 15-minute independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14 | No drama background requiredSight lines are the most practically correctable problem in student productions, and the most commonly ignored until performance day when it is too late to fix. This lesson solves sight line problems before performance day by teaching students to audit their own staging from the audience's perspective. The warm-up makes sight line problems visible th
Teacher guide and student book | 45-minute lesson plus 15-minute independent activity | Grades 5 to 8 | Ages 10 to 14 | No drama background requiredA scene that worked perfectly in rehearsal can fall flat in performance. A scene that felt rough in the last rehearsal can come alive in front of an audience. The difference is almost always performance energy, and most students do not know what it is or how to generate it deliberately. This lesson teaches both. Performance energy is not louder or fa
5th - 8th
Drama, Speaking & Listening
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